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The Holy Bible Is The Immutable Living Word Of the Eternal God

 

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All Of Our Rituals,                                    Are An Abomination to The Eternal God.

All Of Our Festivals,                                Are An Abomination to The Eternal God.

All Of Our Pagan Practices,                  Are An Abomination to The Eternal God. 

                       

The Eternal God Is Not A Robotic Moron, On Whom We Make Demands,

And Whom we Obey, As We Like, And When It Is Convenient To Do So.

 

Christ Is Our Living, Loving, Personal Saviour.    There Is No Other.

Christ Is The Solution To All Our Problems.          There Is No Other.

 

1 Timothy 2:5 For there is One God, and

                                              One Mediator between God and men,

                                              The Man, Christ Jesus.

 

If This Verse Is Not In Your Bible, Your Bible Is Corrupt. – Throw It Away. 

You Have Been Deceived Into Serving Satan, the god of this world.

 

Sincerity Is Not The Issue.

You can be sincere and still be wrong.

 

To Live A Lie Is To Die. – It Is As Simple As That.

 

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  CHAIN                                               CHAIN    

                Breaking All Chains

        Setting The Captives Free 

       

 Achan’s Lesson Applies To Us Today

 

By Peter James from:   www.peterjamesx.com   

 

There is a serious problem, which affects, many people today.

This problem and its consequences are clearly stated in the

book of Joshua Chapters 1 to 7.

 

We have to understand that any association with anything at all,

which the Eternal God, would qualify as ‘Accursed’, is going to cause

very serious trouble, until the problem is completely removed.

It does not make the slightest bit of difference, what we choose to believe.

When the Eternal God, commands us directly, or through His servants,

we had better pay careful attention.

 

It is quite impossible to over emphasize, how critical is ‘Absolute Obedience’.

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It is the primary lesson with which mankind, has refused to comply and to obey.

It makes not difference, whether one is a ‘Christian or non-Christian’.

The reality is that this lesson is going to be learnt,

either the easy or the hard and very painful way.

 

Matthew 7:4  Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote

out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?

Matthew 7:5  Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye;

and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.

 

We are all experts at seeing the problems of others, but not our own,

and even when problems are high lighted to us, most times we go merrily along,

doing our own thing. This is, not only to our detriment, but it results in serious harm

to the body of Christ.   

 

We make a very serious mistake:

If we choose to ignore a problem, if we feel that in time, it will go away.

If we think that, surely if such a problem existed, God would deal with it.

If we think that, it is not my problem.

If we think that, I am studying the bible and praying, therefore there cannot be a problem.

If we think that, God is speaking to us, and He has not complained,

so all must be well. Often it never occurs to us, that the Eternal God might just have

sent His messenger to enlighten us, but in our blindness, we choose not to accept

what we have been told.

 

Jeremiah 25:4  And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets,

rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.

 

How would you know that such a person has been sent to you?

 

Matthew 7:20  Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

 

It is absolutely true, that the Eternal God is a God of love,

but by definition, He also has to be a God of judgment.

 1 John 4:8  He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

 1 John 4:16  And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us.

 God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

 

We are completely mistaken in the lie, that everything is acceptable,

since God is love.

The reasoning is that anything goes as we are now under the New Covenant.

This is the erroneous definition of Grace.

 

John 14:15  If ye love me, keep my commandments.

 

Furthermore, the Eternal God can forgive all sins, regardless of how

abominable they might be.

However, absolutely nowhere are we told, that He will remove the

penalty for the sin. It might be delayed, but the price must be paid,

sooner or later.

 

The Eternal God will not compromise in the slightest,

for anyone at all.

 

The lesson from Joshua chapters 1 to 7, clearly shows us,

that they Eternal God is also a God of Judgment,

and He must be obeyed.

 

It is one the critical foundation lessons, that is taught from Genesis

to Revelation. We ignore this fact, to our personal detriment,

and also to the detriment of the Body of Christ.

 

At this critical time, in the history of the world,

we should all humble ourselves, and put our houses in order,

because it is much later than we might think.

Many years ago, we were told, that we must not think that we are some how,

irreplaceable, because we are not.

 

First we see that it is the Eternal God, who chose Joshua,

as the new leader of Biblical Israel, after Moses had died.

He was not chosen by ballot and voting.

Joshua’s job description was precise.

Obey the Eternal God in all things and success was guaranteed.

 

Joshua 1:7  Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe

to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee:

turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper

whithersoever thou goest.

Joshua 1:8  This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth;

but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe

to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make

thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

Joshua 1:9  Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage;

be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee

whithersoever thou goest.

 

All the tribes of Biblical Israel understood Joshua’s remit,

to the extent that it is the people, who then said that those,

who rebel against Joshua had to die.

 

Joshua 1:17  According as we hearkened unto Moses in all things,

so will we hearken unto thee: only the LORD thy God be with thee,

as he was with Moses.

 

This shows that the tribes of Israel, were not ignorant of the will of the Eternal God.

 

Joshua 1:18  Whosoever he be that doth rebel against thy commandment,

and will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him,

he shall be put to death: only be strong and of a good courage.

 

In spite of all of the above, we are told that ‘children of Israel had sinned’,

and that the LORD was very angry with them.

It also meant that as stated in the above verse some were going to die.

 

Joshua 7:1   But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing:

. . . . .

and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel.

 

The middle part of the verse, which I omitted above, made it clear,

that it was a single man, called Achan, who had sinned,

but the sin of this one man, had very serious consequences.

All of the nations of Biblical were suffering as a result of Achan’s sin.

People actually died.

 

for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah,

of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing:

 

Achan had sinned by taking something that the Eternal God had

said was accursed.

 

For some reason, man chooses not to understand that, ‘No man is an island’.

We only have to consider the consequences of the sin of Adam and Eve.

Every single human being, who has or will live has and will been affected

by their sin.

 

We like to say as long as we are not hurting anyone else,

we can do what we like.

You will see that this is not the case at all.

 

In Joshua  Chapter 1, we see that Joshua who took over from Moses

was indeed a mighty anhd faithful man, to whom the Eternal God made great promises.

This is just one of many promises.

 

Joshua  1:5  There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days

of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee:

I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Joshua  1:6  Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou

divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them.

 

We can see how mightily that the Eternal God was working with Joshua.

Joshua and the tribes of Israel crossed over the river Jordan on dry land.

The river parted, and allowed them to cross,

just as the Red Sea had parted and allowed them to escape from Pharoah.

This was a major miracle.

 

The first city that Joshua captured was Jericho.

This in itself is a huge lesson for us.

The double walls of Jericho were massive.

The inhabitants would have thought that they were invincible.

Similarly one can think that the accursed thing is too big to be handled.

It is simply not true.

It is the Eternal God, who brought down the walls of Jericho.

Humble yourself and submit to Him, and He will do the same for your situation.

     

Schematic cross-section diagram

of the fortification system at Jericho

based on Kenyon's west trench. 

 

We can see that all the nation of Biblical Israel obeyed, the command

not to take anything from the accursed city.

Valuable food was left untouched.

 

Both Garstang and Kenyon found many storage jars full of grain that had been caught in the fiery destruction.

This is a unique find in the annals of archaeology. Grain was valuable, not only as a source of food,

but also as a commodity which could be bartered. Under normal circumstances, valuables such as grain

would have been plundered by the conquerors. Why was the grain left at Jericho? The Bible provides the answer.

Joshua commanded the Israelites that the city and all that is in it were to be dedicated

to the Lord (Joshua 6:17, lit. Heb.).

 

They captured that city by obeying precisely what the Eternal God,

had told them to do.

They walked around the city for six days, in silence.

 

Joshua 6:10 And Joshua had commanded the people, saying,

Ye shall not shout, nor make any noise with your voice,

neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth,

until the day I bid you shout; then shall ye shout.

 

Joshua 6:15  And it came to pass on the seventh day,

that they rose early about the dawning of the day,

 and compassed the city after the same manner seven times:

only on that day they compassed the city seven times.

Joshua 6:16  And it came to pass at the seventh time,

when the priests blew with the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people,

Shout; for the LORD hath given you the city.

 

I have come across this information many years ago.

Then it stated that it appeared that the walls were pushed down into the ground.

It seems that this is saying the very same thing.

So even after they collapsed, they were not an obstacle.

What an incredible miracle.

The lesson for us is that we must never fear to act,

in order to carry out God’s instructions.

 

After the seventh trip around the city on the seventh day, Scripture tells us that the wall “fell down flat”

(Joshua 6:20). The Hebrew here carries the suggestion that it “fell beneath itself.”5 Is there evidence

for such an event at Jericho?

 

p.j. comment: This means precisely what is said above.

It does not need to be explained away as below.

This why the soldiers could walk straight forward, without any obstacle at all.

If there were huge piles of rubble, they would not have been able to do so.

 

It turns out that there is ample evidence that the mudbrick city wall collapsed

and was deposited at the base of the stone retaining wall at the time the city met its end.

 

           Jericho, must have been an exceedingly wicked place.

           We see that the entire city was cursed, even the animals.

           There were possibly half breeds, nephilim, bio-engineering, and beastiality,

           both of which polluted the animals. Idolatry and human sacrifice,

           would have been normal.

           Thus total destruction was the sentence.

If you read through the books of the law, such as Deuteronomy, you will see it

           clear warnings not to carry out the practices of the heathen practices of the land,

 which they were being given. Unfortunately Biblical Israel adopted all these

 horrific practices, and still does so today.

 

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 Absolutely everything was cursed.

 

           Joshua 6:17   And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein,

  to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are

  with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.

 

The people were warned not to take any thing from the city,

because it was cursed. If they disobeyed that person would be cursed,

and also the whole nation of Israel.

 

 Joshua 6:18  And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing,

 lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing,

 and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.

 

We are then told, that silver, gold, and vessels of brass and iron were to be put

in the Treasury of the Temple.

 

Joshua 6:19  But all the

silver, and

gold, and

vessels of brass and iron,

are consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the LORD.

 

Joshua saved Rahab as the spies promised.

The city was utterly destroyed, and almost all the gold, silver, brass and iron,

was put into the treasury of the LORD. 

 

Joshua 6:24  And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein:

only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron,

they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD.

Joshua 6:25  And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive,

and her father’s household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel

even unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which

Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

 

In Joshua chapter 7, the nation of Biblical Isael, came to the second city,

which was called Ai, and planned to conquer it, as they had been commanded to do.

Once again Joshua sent out his spies, and they told him, that it was

a small city, and that it could easily be conquered by 2 to 3 thousand soldiers.

 

Joshua had a complete disaster on his hands, instead of the victory,

which we showed that he had been promised in Joshua Chapter 1.

 

Joshua 7:4  So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men:

and they fled before the men of Ai.

 

Joshua 7:5  And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men:

for they chased them from before the gate even unto Shebarim,

and smote them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted,

and became as water.

 

Joshua was completely distraught, so much so that he blamed God

for the disaster.

 

Joshua 7:6   And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face

before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel,

and put dust upon their heads.

Joshua 7:7  And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou at all

brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites,

to destroy us? would to God we had been content,

and dwelt on the other side Jordan!

Joshua 7:8  O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs

before their enemies!

Joshua 7:9  For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land

shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth:

and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?

 

The LORD asked Joshua, why are you lying on the ground?

He also told him to get up.

 

Joshua 7:10  And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up;

wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face?

 

It did not cross poor Joshua’s mind, that there was sin in his camp.

In mercy the Eternal God told Joshua the precise reason for their

defeat. It is exactly the same today, and this is the purpose for this

document. We all have to understand that there is a definite,

and legal reason, why our homes, do not have peace.

We might not know the reason, as Joshua did not know the reason,

or we might choose, to treat the legal reason as trivial,

and therefore we continue to reap the consequences.

 

This is not only serious, but it is critical, because we are clearly told

that the Eternal God will not be with us, regardless of what we might

think, and the excuses, that we might make for our rebellion.

The automatic reaction is to deceive ourselves,

and give ourselves permission to continue down the road of ruin.

 

Joshua 7:11  Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant

which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing,

and have also stolen, and dissembled also,

and they have put it even among their own stuff.

Joshua 7:12  Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies,

but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed:

neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you.

 

We also have to understand, that 36 men died, who should not have died.

Therefore, Achan was guilty of murder, because he personally caused their deaths.

 

We need to get it into our very thick heads, that our rebellion,

is prolonging the dreadful suffering, which we can all see on the Tel-Lie-Vision,

and various news media.

Just like Achan, we are responsible.

 

We also have to understand, that we can deceive ourselves into thinking

that we are not doing anything wrong, when in fact we are also causing serious

damage to the body of Christ. We are actually, literally causing all sorts of pain,

and suffering, to the body of Christ, and as I said prolonging the pain of millions

of innocent people.

Do we really care?

Achan did not consider for one second that,

he had caused pain and death to others, and neither do we.

 

It is the Eternal God, who put Moses and Joshua over the nations of Biblical Israel.

It is a simple fact that many of the people under them, would have preferred

someone else. This principle started right at the top.

Even Aaron, and Miriam, Moses’ brother and sister.

 

Numbers 12:1  And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses

because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married:

 for he had married an Ethiopian woman.

Numbers 12:2  And they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses?

hath he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard it.

 

This is the appraisal that Eternal God gave of Moses.

 

Numbers 12:3  (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men

which were upon the face of the earth.) 

 

The Eternal God asked Aaron and Miriam, if they were not afraid

to complain about Moses.

 

Numbers 12:8  With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently,

and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold:

wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?

 

The next thing we hear is that the Lord was very angry with both of them.

 

Numbers 12:9  And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them;

and he departed.

 

Miriam ended up with Leprosy.

 

Numbers 12:10  And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle;

and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam,

and, behold, she was leprous.

 

I believe that it was only because Aaron was the High Priest, that he did not

suffer leprosy, as it would have disqualified him from his position of High Priest.

Aaron had already lost two sons in the wilderness of Sinai, because of rebellion.

The lesson is clear, Rebellion ultimately leads to death.

 

Numbers 3:4  And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD,

when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai,

and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest’s office

in the sight of Aaron their father.

 

It is only because her brother Moses prayed for her,

that Miriam was cleansed from her leprosy.

 

Numbers 12:13  And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, Heal her now,

O God, I beseech thee.

Numbers 12:14  And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face,

should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days,

and after that let her be received in again.

 

We need to understand that it is not up to our own intelligence,

to determine what is best for the body of Christ.

Like Aaron and Miriam, we can think what we like,

and we can also do exactly as we desire,

however, there will always be consequences.

 

1 Corinthians 12:18  But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body,

as it hath pleased him.

 

1 Corinthians 12:26  And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it;

or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

 

1 Corinthians 12:27  Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

1 Corinthians 12:28  And God hath set some in the church, first apostles,

secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings,

helps, governments, diversities of tongues.

 

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Achan thought that he was isolated, and safe in his tent,

and that he could do what he wanted.

He was very wrong indeed.

Many people do exactly the very same today.

The death penalty for disobedience was clearly stated in Joshua chapter 1

 

Joshua 1:18  Whosoever he be that doth rebel against thy commandment,

and will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him,

he shall be put to death: only be strong and of a good courage.

 

Achan also stole directly from the Eternal God.

 

Joshua 7:19  But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron,

are consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the LORD.

 

Having drawn lots, Achan was identified as the culprit.

He acknowledge what he had done, and told Joshua that the items,

which he has stolen was in his tent.

 

Joshua 7:20  And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned

against the LORD God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done:

Joshua 7:21  When I saw among the spoils

a goodly Babylonish garment, and

two hundred shekels of silver, and

a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight,

then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth

in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.

Joshua 7:22  So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent; and,

behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it.

 

All the nation of Biblical Israel had been warned, not to take

anything from Jericho for everything in it including the people were cursed.

 

Joshua 7:18  And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing,

lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing,

and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.

 

Joshua 7:20  And Achan answered Joshua, and said,

Indeed I have sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done:

Joshua 7:21  When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment,

and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight,

then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth

in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.

 

Joshua 7:22  So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent; and,

behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it.

Joshua 7:23  And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought them

unto Joshua, and unto all the children of Israel, and laid them out before the LORD.

Joshua 7:24  And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah,

and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters,

and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had:

and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.

 

Joshua 7:25  And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble

thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire,

after they had stoned them with stones.

 

Here is the lesson for us today.

If perchance, we have anything in our homes, which qualifies,

as an abomination, we will inevitably have a poblem.

It is an unbreakable principle.

It makes not the slightest difference, how these things come to be

in our homes. Our environment will be cursed, and regardless of what we might

think, the Eternal God, will not be with us anymore.

We might think that we are keeping the commandments,

studying the Bible, praying, and even believe that we are hearing from the Eternal

God, Himself.

According to Joshua chapter 7, until the problem is resolved,

everything else is quite pointless.

 

Of course directly related to this is the sin of rebellion.

 

We have to understand that what is required of us is:

absolute obedience

absolute purity,

absolute unselfishness,

absolute love,

absolute honesty,

and an unpolluted environment.

 

These are not just my ideas, they are the critical lessons of the Bible.

 

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Supplementary Information:

There are some items and situations, which can be beyond the control

of some of us. In these circumstances, seek advice,

and guidance on these matters.

 

The reality is that our environment cannot be as blessed, and as peaceful,

as it could be, if these items were removed, or did not exist, period.

 

Here are some items that commonly cause homes not to be as peaceful,

and blessed as they could be: False Literature from False churches, of any type,

be it printed, or on computer, or other media,

DVDs. CDs, videos, magazines, which portray subjects, which have been declared

to be abominations, such as pornography, homosexuality, lesbianism, beastiality,

paedophilia, prostitution, rape and the like, extreme violence, torture,

and witchcraft in any of its many guises,such as Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, etc.,

‘Recreational Drug’s, cigarettes, and the like, and unclean food,

which have also been declared abominations.

 

                    By Peter James from:   www.peterjamesx.com